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9 P.M. (HBO) THE BATTLE OF AMFAR (2013) In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman chronicle the efforts of Elizabeth Taylor, above, and Mathilde Krim to create the American Foundation for AIDS Research, which, since its inception in 1985, has granted more than $366 million to the study of H.I.V. and AIDS. The designer Kenneth Cole is an executive producer of the film.

6:05 P.M. (Flix) THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR (2004) In this adaptation of John Irving’s novel “A Widow for One Year,” Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges, below, portray Marion and Ted Cole, a couple still reeling from the deaths of their two teenage sons in a car accident some years earlier. Elle Fanning is their 4-year-old daughter, whose arrival was meant to help alleviate their grief. And Jon Foster is a boarding school student who has traveled to the family’s home in the Hamptons to spend a summer working as an assistant to Ted, an author and illustrator of children’s books, but ends up sleeping with Marion. Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott said that this drama from Tod Williams may “belong in the rarefied company of movies that are better than the books on which they are based.”

7 P.M. (HBO) THE DESCENDANTS (2011) Matt King (George Clooney, in an Oscar-nominated role), whose family tree includes the earliest white settlers in Hawaii, as well as indigenous royalty, struggles to make the right decision about his family’s birthright, a pristine tract on Kauai: Should it be sold to developers? In the meantime his wife is in a coma after a boating accident. Not long after Matt learns he is about to become a widower and a single father to two difficult daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alex (Shailene Woodley, below with Mr. Clooney), he learns that his wife had an affair. A. O. Scott wrote in The Times that the film’s director, Alexander Payne, showed “a light touch and a keen sense of place” in making “a movie that, for all its modesty, is as big as life.”

9 P.M. (TLC) BAKERY BOSS Buddy Valastro of “Cake Boss” helps struggling bakery owners devise recipes for success in this new series. He starts with Violet’s Bake Shop, a Hungarian Jewish bakery in Fresh Meadows, Queens, where the owner has resorted to ordering baked goods from an outside supplier. “Best Funeral Ever,” at 10, follows the Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas as it plans distinctive services like the one for a bowler whose coffin is sent down a lane.

11 P.M. (HBO2) CLOSER (2004) Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman star as entangled Londoners in this Mike Nichols adaptation of Patrick Marber’s play about toxic romance. “They are four characters in search of an objective correlative, their intimacies obstructed by lofty words — honesty, cowardice, love — that seem, after a while, to mean nothing at all,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “When the two official couples, their relationships threatened by symmetrical unofficial coupling, reach their climactic confrontations, it’s hard not to wonder, ‘What on earth are they so worked up about?’ ”

1:30 A.M. (AMC) THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, stepping in for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, play a billionaire art collector who orchestrates the theft of a Monet and the insurance investigator who tries to prove he did it. “For an allegedly steamy love story,” Janet Maslin wrote in The Times, the movie works best “as proof that sex can be in the head: the film editor’s head.” KATHRYN SHATTUCK